Elize Vossgätter
7 July – 22 August 2025
During her residency, Elize Vossgätter quietly advanced a body of work rooted in her continued exploration of wax, a material shared by bees, plants, humans and petroleum. In her hands, wax becomes a threshold: between the organic and synthetic, the sculptural and the painterly, the fragile and the enduring.
Her practice unfolds within the tensions of transformation and precarity, drawing from the climate crisis not as subject matter but as atmosphere. Through this mutable medium, she navigates humanity’s contradictory impulses, to nurture and to destroy, while reflecting on the hybrid ecosystems we inhabit and shape.
Her residency culminated in an exhibition titled systemic, which you can learn more about here.
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Elize Vossgätter (b.1981, Johannesburg) is a visual artist based in Cape Town and Leipzig. The artist’s practice is primarily with oil paint, though she does explore across various media including sculpture, print making and performance. Her painterly explorations are of the human condition. Her first four solo shows within Cape Town have been marked by her consistent drive to ‘force back the limits of the materiality of paint’ and find new techniques with which to show new meaning.
Despite this constant experimentation and renewal of painting as language her sensibility has remained constant: A deep fascination with what it means to be human, and how this constructed humanness exists in relation with our natural environment and with each other. Her work is an imbued interrogation into philosophical and psychological mores questioning group consciousness and accountability.
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[forthcoming]
